Journal: Journal of neuroinflammation
Article Title: Enhanced phagocytosis associated with multinucleated microglia via Pyk2 inhibition in an acute β-amyloid infusion model.
doi: 10.1186/s12974-024-03192-7
Figure Lengend Snippet: Fig. 1 Inhibition of Pyk2 signaling induces multinucleation formation in microglia. A Morphological changes between mononuclear and multinucleated microglia. Immunocytochemistry of MG6 cells stained with anti-Iba1 (green) and anti-β-tubulin (magenta). Nuclear DNA was labeled with DAPI (white). Scale bar is 20 μm. B Cells were treated with Pyk2-Inh for 24 h. Phase contrast images (upper panel) and DAPI stained images (lower panel) were shown. Circles are indicated as multinucleated cells. C The quantification of the number of multinucleated cells/well (control: n = 4, Pyk2-Inh-500 nM: n = 4, Pyk2-Inh-1000 nM). D Cell proliferation was assessed by CCK-8. MG6 cells were treated with 100 μg/mL CSF1 and indicated concentration of Pyk2-Inh (n = 6 per group, One-way ANOVA, p < 0.05). E Representatives immunoblot images. The ratio of p-Pyk2/ Pyk2, pFAK/FAK, p-ERK/ERK, p-Src/Src and Mannose receptor/Tubulin were described under the blot. Pyk2-Inh was administered as a pre-treatment two hours before stimulation with CSF1 (100 μg/mL). F Image quantification and analysis were performed. The same experiments were repeated three times. All full-length uncropped original western blots are included in a Sup. Fig. 4. Values are mean ± SD. #: negative control (without CSF1) vs control (with CSF1), ##: p < 0.01; *: control (with CSF1) vs Pyk2-Inh (with CSF1), *: p < 0.05; **: p < 0.01; ***: p-value < 0.001; ****: p-value < 0.0001
Article Snippet: The primary antibodies detected immuno-blotting were listed as follows: p-Pyk2 (Anti-rabbit, Cell Signaling Technology #3291, 1:1000), Pyk2 (Anti-rabbit, Cell Signaling Technology #3292, 1:1000), pFAK (Anti-rabbit, Cell Signaling Technology #3283, 1:1000), FAK (Anti-Rabbit, Cell Signaling Technology #3285, 1:1000), p-ERK (Anti-Rabbit, Cell Signaling Technology #4370, 1:1000), ERK (Anti-Rabbit, Cell Signaling Technology #9102, 1:1000), p-Src (Anti-rabbit, Cell Signaling Technology #6943, 1:1000), Src (Antirabbit, Cell Signaling Technology #2108, 1:1000), Mannose receptor (Anti-mouse, Abcam ab64693, 1:1000), Lamp-1 (Anti-rabbit, Abcam ab24170, 1:1000), p-NF-κB (Anti-rabbit, Cell Signaling Technology #3033, 1:1000), NF-κB (Anti-rabbit, Cell Signaling Technology #8242, 1:1000), β-actin (Anti-mouse, Wako, 010-27841, 1:1000) and Tubulin (Anti-rat, Abcam ab6160, 1:1000).
Techniques: Inhibition, Immunocytochemistry, Staining, Labeling, Control, CCK-8 Assay, Concentration Assay, Western Blot, Negative Control